On the Social Web
A selection of blogs from torchbearers and fans of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games
The Olympic flame began its journey to the furthest point north in its history by stopping off first at a town known for the Arctic’s most familiar icon – the polar bear.
On being an Olympic torchbearer
Carrying the torch is a little way to feel connected to 11,999 other people who will do the same. Here’s a little bit about the people I met and my moment with the torch.
Chris Wheeler is our Torch Relay Field Reporter. He will travel with the torch throughout BC and Canada and document the relay, the celebrations while showing off the amazing places the torch passes.
Carrying the torch: Shelley Fralic
It’s 8:30 p.m. in Whitehorse and the end of a long, bustling day for Vancouver’s 2010 Olympic Torch flame, which is resting comfortably overnight in three metal miner’s lanterns some 15 hours after beginning its 10-day northern Canada relay leg, taking it to mostly small communities from the Queen Charlotte Islands to the Yukon, Northwest Territories, the northern Prairie provinces and Quebec, and winding up in St. John’s Newfoundland.
